The Bible : Word of God or Ideas of Man ?
Ever challenged someone with something the bible says and gotten and excuse that goes something like this “But it’s just the words of man” ? in the sermon attached John MacArthur helps us see from the bible that it is far more than the words of man, that the bible is most definitely the word of God, and the way a person responds to it will determine their eternal destiny. Below is a quote from the sermon, and the sermon can be listened to or downloaded below.
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.- 2 Timothy 3:16-17
The Old Testament is the revelation of God to show man what God is like, who God is, what God tolerates and does not tolerate, and how God desires holiness and punishes sin. The New Testament is God revealed by his Son, and in the culmination and the coming of his Son to establish His eternal Kingdom. But in either case, Old Testament, New Testament, God spoke. And what we have is indeed the word of God. This is not the word of man.
So, Men were not inspired, but scripture is. God breathed into them and they worte it down, word by word, what God breathed into them. It was more than dictation. They weren’t just listening to some voice and writing mechanically every word; it was flowing through their heart and their soul and their mind and their emotions and their experiences. But it came out every word the Word of God. As God breathed into them the message and they were carried along by the Holy Spirit, they said it and some of them wrote it down. Miraculous, inexplicable process that yields to us the word of God. – John MacArthur
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